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Word: vigilanteism (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the vigilant but not unsympathetic eye of Miss Mona (Carlin Glynn), whom no one would presume to call a madam, the girls feel that this house is cozier than home. But a puritan nemesis stalks them: a local TV Savonarola nicknamed "Watchdog" (Clint Allmon) who is bent on inflaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Delicate Bawdry | 5/1/1978 | See Source »

This habit of skipping past the physical toward the philosophical makes The City Builder an altogether less-urgent narrative than The Case Worker. The bureaucrat hero has evidently led an interesting, if calamitous life, but he strews the details so negligently through his thoughts that only the most vigilant reader...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hind Thoughts | 11/28/1977 | See Source »

In a popular TV show of the '50s, The Millionaire, a vigilant philanthropist would single out deserving citizens and then stun them with a big check. Philanthropist Thomas Cannon, 53, is no multimillionaire, however. He is a black postal worker in Richmond earning $16,000 a year, who in...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Setting a High Standard of Giving | 10/31/1977 | See Source »

Despite strong disagreements with her perspective, concentrators have attempted to work with Southern, but those efforts have met with more frustration than success. After initially refusing to meet with concentrators, she finally did agree, and initial contact was made. Whatever relationship could have developed, however, was eroded by repeated displays...

Author: By Peter Hardie and Bruce Jacobs, S | Title: On the Brink: Afro-American Studies At Harvard | 1/18/1977 | See Source »

The pictorial attack on Madame Mao has been reinforced by a 9,000-word editorial in the Communist Party newspaper People's Daily. The article offered the first official blow-by-blow account of the plots perpetrated by the Gang of Four in the weeks surrounding the death of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: They Are Maligning the Madame | 1/3/1977 | See Source »

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